Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints
10 best books like Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints (Jim Arnosky): Mirette on the High Wire, Can We Save the Tiger?, Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, One Well: The Story of Water on Earth, North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration, No Monkeys, No Chocolate, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
| Author | Emily Arnold McCully |
| ISBN | 0698114434 |
Mirette was always fascinated by the strange and interesting people who stayed in her mother's boardinghouse. But no one excited her as much as Bellini, who walks the clothesline with the grace and ease of a bird. When Mirette discovers that fear has kept him from performing for years, she knows she must...
| Author | Martin Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0763649090 |
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.
Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
| Author | Thomas F. Yezerski |
| ISBN | 0374349134 |
The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant...
| Author | Rochelle Strauss |
| ISBN | 1553379543 |
Seen from space, our planet looks blue. This is because almost 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water. Earth is the only planet with liquid water --- and therefore the only planet that can support life.
All water is connected. Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier...
| Author | Nick Dowson |
| ISBN | 0763652717 |
A passionate nature lover and a renowned artist trace the awe-inspiring spring migration of millions of creatures to the Arctic--the greatest journey on Earth.
At the top of our world is a huge wild place called the Arctic.
In the winter, it is a cold and barren land, where few animals...
| Author | Melissa Stewart |
| ISBN | 1580892876 |
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist?
This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees...
| Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
| ISBN | 0763627305 |
A dejected soldier makes a pact with the devil in this haunting, ultimately hopeful fairy tale, masterfully retold and vividly illustrated.
Man or bear? When a person gives up hope, is he still human? Such is the story of a soldier who has lost everything to war: his childhood home, his family...
| Author | Margaret Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0393979210 |
Great anthology, but I’m surprised that there are some key missing poems from famous poets... lots missing from ee cummings but that makes sense because they can’t include ~every~ poem he’s written. I’m surprised they chose “A Blessing” over “Lying on a Hammock at William Duffy’s...
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763631973 |
Canterbury Tales are a bit bawdy.This is a version adapted for children. Some of the thematic elements just can't be avoided! And humor during the middle ages included potty humor (read: tooting and whatnot). That being said, I thought this was done appropriately and the girls think it is HYSTERICAL....
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1596438746 |
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!
A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596439505 |
Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
| Author | Jim Gigliotti |
| ISBN | 0448482991 |
Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0547959079 |
In his eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, the Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes—clusters of light-sensitive...
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring The Earth To Life
| Author | Molly Bang |
| ISBN | 0545044227 |
Living Sunlight shows children, teachers, and parents the remarkable magic of what makes us human.This informative yet dramatic book will mesmerize readers and help further a child's understanding of the energy we share with all living things in nature. We are all dancing sunlight. The book is co-authored...
